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Final project from our Digital Humanities class analyzing letters from WWI soldiers to see how the war impacted their mental and behavioral health
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Project Meeting Notes 09/21 #3

Open amcheckeye opened 1 year ago

amcheckeye commented 1 year ago

Second Project Meeting

Ben guided the team through github token creation and git config. Our newest member Huzan needs additional time to install and configure git, but Matt and Jake successfully committed and pushed info through to our project repository.

Allison reviewed the sample WWI Reference List and schema that she made for tracking info we might potentially gather from letters in the corpus. _checkeye09-16WWIRefList.xml contains info about the first 8 letters in the National Archive of UK WWI files. We may or may not maintain this document.

Refining the Research Goal

"Which war-time factors contributed most to the mental wellbeing of soldiers during WWI?" Our working research method as of now is to identify explicit emotive statements in each letter, and assign attributes relating to emotional type or sentiment type (positive, neutral, negative at least, maybe more specifics) and to otherwise tag war-time factors in the letter that contribute toward the emotions portrayed. To what extend will we identify causation between factors and emotive statements?

Factor List

Goals for next meeting:

  1. Finish reading and searching for letters to include - we will discuss corpus size next time.
  2. Consider limitations to corpus based on what data we know we have and what we might still need (in regards to representation of countries and time periods).
  3. Ongoing discussion on slack about progress/ adding to corpus.
EmmaSchwarz commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the update, Allison. It sounds like you all are making good progress. We also appreciate your sophisticated usage of Markdown to format this update! All of the information is clear, and we look forward to seeing how you all formalize the corpus you will be using.